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  • From: "Adriana" <adriana AT chefsgreens.com>
  • To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Potatoes in straw
  • Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:09:16 -0600

I planted potatoes on the surface of my garden this year with deep straw mulch. I was hoping to just lift the straw and harvest the potatoes, but I found that most of the tubers developed in the soil just under the mulch. So I still had dirty tubers and dirty hands. I may experiment with the garbage can method, using only straw and hydroponic nutrients.

Regards to the list. Somewhere down the line I either read online, perhaps even this list about a potato machine. This being a way of raising potatoes in a half barrel using straw asa high mulch and a person being able to continuously harvest potatoes off of the plant without killing it, by just reaching into the straw and removing those tubers you want. Does anyone know any thing about this

Adriana Gutierrez



  • [Market-farming] Potatoes in straw, Adriana, 11/13/2006

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